Excel 2003 - Text Shading

[Guest]

Word 2003 has a feature whereby you can select part of the text in a cell and
apply shading to only that text. Does Excel have such a feature - or
something similar? I need to put black shading on a few words of text in a
cell, but not on ALL the text in that cell.

 

[Chip Pearson]

You can do this if the cell contains text. You can't do it if the
cell contains a formula. Select the cell, then highlight the
appropriate characters in the formula and apply the formatting.

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Chip Pearson
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[Guest]

If by shading you mean highlighting, the answer is no. You can select a word
(or words) in the cell, click Format > Cell, and this will bring up the Font
tab. You can then change the font, font style, size, underline, and color,
but no highlighting.